The project developed a user-friendly hand-held computer (or personal digital assistant, PDA)-based data management system for collection and analysis of medical field survey data.
A number of factors cause urban violence-and they require both short and long-term interventions. Many countries direct huge amounts of resources at what governments believe to be the root causes of urban violence.
The Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) project, funded jointly by the German Development Bank and the City of Cape Town in South Africa, is a prime example of an evidence-based intervention for violence prevention that was designed